The „greed tax” – PSD’s great failure. Dragnea’s conqueror aura is dimming and Vâlcov is one step closer to being ousted


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Emergency decree 114, branded by PSD’s false Robin Hoods as the „greed tax”, was neutralized today by its very same…

How the PSD became beholden to Dan Voiculescu. The virulent anti-EU discourse exported from Antena 3 studios directly to Brussels


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Of the nine eligible positions allotted to the PSD for the EU elections, three are taken by Dan Voiculescu’s people: Carmen Avram, Chris Terhes and...  

Major change in tactics. The emergency decree meant to save Dragnea – announced, owned, and negotiated in Brussels


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This time it’s different : the attempts at amending criminal law and saving Liviu Dragnea &co from the long arm of the law are performed...  

A petition to exclude PSD from the family of European socialists was filed in the European Parliament: the exclusion of PSD would be a reaffirmation of the values and goals of the S&D Alliance


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The Aprozar revival vs Artificial Intelligence. Why Dragnea tries to get us back into the arms of the daddy state


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Don’t be fooled: Dragnea hates the proverbial communist Aprozar (grocery store) full of Vietnamese shrimp and homegrown tomatoes. For a merchant who literally put water...  

A Unique moment: How Kovesi found out that she won and why the MEPs preferred her


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I stumbled upon her at the airport in Brussels as she was heading to the boarding gate, accompanied only by an aide. The flight has...  

The miscalculations of Mr. Dragnea


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Why did the PSD’s leader attend the Congress of the European Socialists in Madrid, anyway, where he was basically „slaughtered” and publicly humiliated by his...  

The link between Toader’s Decree and Dragnea


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With the newly adopted emergency decree, Liviu Dragnea takes one of the last steps towards the takeover of the Prosecutor’s Office, setting a specific deadline...  

Kovesi’s investigation: another step towards the Republic of Thugs


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Laura Codruţa Kovesi’s investigation confirms all the fears expressed last year by the Venice Commission, the GRECO report and the CVM warnings, and the alarm...  

VIDEO The head of the Foreign Investors Council: „Decree 114 is toxic for business”. On demonizing the companies with foreign ownership: „It’s an opportunistic game of looking for scapegoats”


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DOCUMENTS Prosecutor Tudorel Toader in the Communist Party archives: As a member of the Communist Party, he conscientiously fulfills the tasks entrusted to him, showing spirit of initiative and being combative in the general assemblies


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What Tudorel Toader knows


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The former prosecutor in Panciu knows, since the time he was investigating petty crimes, that with time, evidence becomes obsolete, that witnesses start forgetting things,...  

Call of the Romanian Judges and Prosecutors to the European Union Members States’ Justice Ministers


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Call of the Romanian Judges and Prosecutors to the European Union Members States’ Justice Ministers Your Excellencies, In the context of your 6th to 8th...  

The danger facing the anti-PSD movement: A war of attrition between Klaus Iohannis and Dacian Ciolos, PNL, USR, and PLUS


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One of the greatest dangers threatening the right’s chances of reporting victories in the upcoming electoral battles against the PSD, and to banding together eventually,...  

The real parallel state. How Darius Vîlcov takes over one institution after another, building an army of orcs


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Darius Vîlcov is turning out to be a serious threat to Romania’s financial stability. Sentenced to 8 years in the lower courts for corruption, an...  

Who destabilizes the Balkans: Putin or the Americans?


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Ahead of his visit to Serbia on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview for „Politika” and „Novosti” accused the United States and other...  

The missing piece in the judiciary puzzle. Next step: the colonization of the system


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The latest decision of the Constitutional Court, which paves the way for the voiding of evidence gathered on the basis of protocols signed with the...  

G4Media.ro condemns the sanctioning of Realitatea TV on political grounds


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G4Media.ro condemns the double standards, the manifestly disproportionate sanction in relation to alleged violations, and the behavior of National Audiovisual Council towards a TV station...  

Rheinmetall denounces opaque bidding in a large military contract. The big weapon endowment scandals provoked by PSD


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Over the past two years, the PSD-led government has provoked several major scandals related to the endowment of the army, involving billions of euros. The...  

The budget of state bankruptcy. Miners Dragnea and Teodorovici are giving the private sector the pick hammer treatment


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Promises made to captive voters and projects earmarked for political clients brought PSD face to face with reality: the government has no money for the...  

The National Anticorruption Directorate: Coroner’s Report


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The time of death of the famous National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) was officially called on October 29, 2018 by a DNA prosecutor talking with the...  

Mission Impossible: where will Dancila’s government find the money for all the pension and salary increases, plus billions for barons


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With the budget for 2019 left hanging in the air, the debacle created by the PSD in the central administration has reached new heights. Populism...  

The emergency decree is coming! Why we cannot wait and see what will appear in the Official Gazette


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This time around, Liviu Dragnea has decided to play with his cards on the table. He summoned, overnight, another National Executive Committee (CEX) to push...  

They broke one of his fingers


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By the action in Parliament on Wednesday, the opposition seems to have aimed for an artistic effect when burning the supreme leader’s effigy. After ramming...  

The PSD government is hanging by 11 MPs. This notwithstanding, a dismissal is unlikely


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The PSD-ALDE coalition lost its majority in the Chamber of Deputies, keeping a total of 244 MPs, only 11 more than the number needed for...  

SOURCES Amnesty and pardon. Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his approval on the decree, on the condition that it be initiated by another ministry.


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Sources within the government have told G4Media.ro. that Tudorel Toader would be willing to put his seal of legal approval…

The four dunces in charge of Romania’s economic policy


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As far as fiscal policy and the economy are concerned, the PSD relies on four individuals : Darius Vâlcov, Eugen Teodorovici, Ion Ghizdeanu (head of...  

Decree 13 reloaded? PSD announces massive giveaways, same as in January 2017


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Talk of a new emergency decree on amnesty and pardon is growing by the day. And the PSD’s conduct is a carbon copy of that...  

A Centenary-worthy gift for thugs: amnesty and land bondage


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Teodorovici, the eternal public sector official, the friend of club owners, and the enemy of private enterprise, has inadvertently leaked PSD’s true thinking regarding members...  

The effects of Stanescu’s resignation. How does Dragnea manage to always be two steps ahead?


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Paul Stanescu’s resignation from the Ministry of Development, a week after the party’s decision to replace him, has determined the winner in this new Iohannis-...  

EXCLUSIVE The real stakes of the government reshuffle: the adoption of the emergency decree on amnesty and pardon. A two-step plan


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Liviu Dragnea wants to remove Paul Stănescu from the Government in order to eliminate the last opponents to an emergency decree on amnesty and pardon....  

PSD’s dangerous game: anti-Semitism as political weapon


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On Tuesday evening, PSD clocked one of the most dangerous transgressions in its recent history, when Ilan Laufer publicly accused President Klaus Johannis of anti-Semitism....  

ALDE Group Leader in the European Parliament responds to Tariceanu: Dear Călin, let me hear your answer – will you support the full implementation of the recommendations of the Venice Commission? Do not pursue the illiberal path. Not in our name, and certainly not with our name!


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Why Klaus Iohannis rejected Laufer and Vasilescu, and kept Stanescu


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The President rejected two nominations for the Dancila Government’s team, and refused two revocation requests from the same. Most likely, he did this in order...  

The PSD’s „hushed” government style: Three cabinets and over 70 ministers changed in less than two years


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The PSD won the 2016 parliamentary election with the biggest score the party has ever recorded, and yet, it generated the biggest government-instability in the...  

All PSD-ALDE attacks on the EU after the CVM and resolution: From a „punch to national sovereigny” to „when Brâncuşi built statues, they taught homosexuality” and „dear EU, you are a Satanist whore”


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This is what cowardice and baseness look like in politics


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Put cowardice for president Iohannis, and baseness for the others. The latest cowardice: the appointment of Ecaterina Andronescu, Romania’s education grave-digger, and champion at stepping...  

How the government countered Brussels’ harshest criticism and political sanctions since joining the EU. The main avenues of misinformation


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Dancila’s government, Dragnea, Tariceanu, the PSD and Antena 3, quite the last remaining combatants in the anti-EU trenches, began circulating, on Tuesday, a series of...  

EXCLUSIVE Dragnea met „system man” Gabriel Oprea in a restaurant to discuss a possible PSD – UNPR alliance


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Liviu Dragnea and Gabriel Oprea met in a restaurant in Bucharest to discuss a possible alliance between PSD and UNPR, sources told G4Media.ro. The meeting...  

The harshest Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) report on the state of the judiciary in Romania: eight additional recommendations by the European Commission, including the immediate suspension of the implementation of the Justice laws, of the changes to the Criminal Codes, and of the ongoing procedures of appointment and dismissal of the chief-prosecutors


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The European Parliament has adopted the resolution on the rule of law in Romania: an indictment in 12 points


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The European Parliament voted with 473 votes in favor, 151 against, and 40 abstentions, a resolution that severely criticizes the Romanian Government’s and Parliament’s conduct...  

EXCLUSIVE: The PSD wants to reimburse from the EU funds the projects of the local barons. A solution to reduce the budget deficit


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The PSD wants to reimburse from the European funds the unfinished projects awarded to the local barons via the National Local Development Program (PNDL), a...  

New pieces of evidence show that Emergency Decree 13 was written outside the premises of the Government, in Dragnea’s office at the Chamber of Deputies. „Initiativa Romania” is in possession of hitherto unknown details from behind the scenes of the episode that sent the country into a downward spiral


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Voices strongly promoted by Russian propaganda make the prime time agenda on Antena 3 and Romania TV


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PSD political figure Liviu Pleşoianu, Daniel Dragomir, former Romanian Information Service (RIS) convicted for corruption in a first instance, journalist Bogdan Duca, and lawyer Dan...  

Effects of the Constitutional Court decision regarding the conflict with the High Court on final sentences: Sentenced offenders may appeal for anulment within maximum 30 days


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The Romanian Constitutional Court admits Dăncilă’s referral regarding the five-judge panels from the High Court: There is a conflict between the Parliament and the High Court / All ongoing trials will be resumed


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Draft resolution of the European Parliament on the rule of law in Romania: „deep concern” about undermining the independence of the judiciary, condemns the violent intervention of gendarmes, condemns the political restrictions on media freedom and calls for the restoration of legislation on NGOs


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An exemplary execution


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In mafia movies, traitors always end-up dying a painful death at the boss’s order, as a way of making a point to other would-be traitors....  

SOURCES A new purging method: the withdrawal of the ORNSSI certificate/ Dozens of senior police officers were left without the certificate authorizing them to access classified information


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„13 criminals from Parliament vs. an advertising agency”. The administrator of Papaya Advertising cited by police to give explanations with regards to the video clip „Children of the Referendum” inspired by a dystopia.


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The „Reptile”. The brute force behind the struggle for the amnesty and pardon of thugs


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The SDP’s “restitutio ad integrum” operation in the judiciary, aiming to bring the latter to a state of submission and obedience to politics, as it...  

Survey: Romania, among the countries least influent and relevant in the EU, two months before taking over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union


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A survey by the influential think-tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) that measures the level of influence Member States…

The Monster


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Yesterday, Liviu Dragnea was the only political figure who dared to use politically the commemoration of the “Colectiv” tragedy. The main political benefactor of that...  

The protocols’ untold truth


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All those who today denounce the collaboration protocols between various institutions of the judiciary and intelligence services are the ones to have laid the foundations...  

The decade of the Barons. How did Romania sacrifice its development under SDP rule


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2019 looks likely to be another year lost for Romania’s development, just like the Centenary Year, just like the past six years with the SDP...  

Dragnea’s plan to get rid of Tudorel Toader


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The time has come for Tudorel Toader to be evaluated. After evaluating others, which essentially meant inventing a simple pretext to oust them from a...  

Experts: Harmful changes in the Penal Code, operated by SDP-ALDE and passed by the Constitutional Court. Criminal legislation is relaxed, defendants are favored


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Even if they are considered to have a negative impact on criminal investigations, some of the legislative changes introduced by…

The big robbery in the forests, encouraged by the Government. Custodians administering the protected areas have been left without power and the theft of wood has already begun. The state took over their work with institutions which are non-functioning and without budget


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Why President Iohannis and the PPE want to bury the European Parliament’s resolution on un-democratic excesses in Romania


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On Tuesday, President Klaus Iohannis said in Strasbourg that it would be „extremely unusual” for the European Parliament to vote on a resolution on a...  

How the Anticorruption Directorate got into a coma


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The new conditions for a prosecutor to be appointed at the National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) are merely the last blows that de facto paralyze the...  

A dramatic drop in euro-optimism in Romania: only 49% of the citizens support EU membership, ten points less than in April


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The latest Eurobarometer survey commissioned by the European Parliament shows that only 49% of Romanians (representing10 points fewer on the previous Eurobarometer in April 2018)...  

The new law on judicial organization combined with Tudorel Toader’s Government Emergency Plan Risks to Blow Up DNA Activity / A little detail slipped into the law has a potentially destructive effect of corruption files / The SCM is expected to make an interpretive decision


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Experts: What are the harmful changes to the Code of Criminal Procedure that have passed the Constitutional Court filter, or have not been challenged before the Court


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Expert practitioners consulted by G4Media.ro have drawn attention to the fact that the Constitutional Court decision on the amendments to…

Everything for Dragnea, short of amnesty and pardon


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The good news is that Tudorel Toader did not provide the much dreamt of amnesty and pardon ardently fantasized by Liviu Dragnea. Did he force...  

Who is Florin Păsătoiu, the man who used Russian propaganda to launch the fake-news about a bilateral co-operation agreement between Russia and Romania


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The recasting of Russian-Romanian relations at the scientific, cultural and diplomatic level through an agreement between the University of Craiova…

The Constitutional Court partially or totally rejected over 60 amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code and accepted about 30 / Some of the most important changes for Dragnea, declared unconstitutional


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Defrauding the state budget in 5 steps: Dragnea and Vâlcov’s strategy to get rid of the EU verification nightmare


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Liviu Dragnea’s big problem with Tel Drum stems from the alleged fraud of European funds. Since he took over SDP from Victor Ponta, and started...  

Sources: Liviu Dragnea’s plan if the referendum were valid


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Several sources from within the SDP told G4Media.ro that, had the referendum been valid, as some opinion poll announced it would, the SDP leader Liviu...  

The big winners of the referendum


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Politically, the winners of the failed referendum on the redefinition of the family as exclusively the marriage between a man and a woman have been...  

The Romanian Orthodox Church’s failure on the referendum: more humility would not go amiss


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It is hard to imagine a more difficult context for the inauguration of the Cathedral of the Salvation of the Nation than the one given...  

The referendum’s big losers and who is gaining from a major failure


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The failure of the referendum for the family represents a striking defeat for several political leaders, with Liviu Dragnea featuring at the top of the...  

How to steal a referendum: three methods


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First, by amending the law. Specifically, by Government Emergency Decree 86/2018 amending the law on the organization and conduct of the referendum. The Decree entered...  

„Save Dragnea from Prison” series, season 3. In which Dragnea needs two emergency decrees for his ambitious plan


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The new season in the „Save Dragnea from Prison” series has started, the most dramatic and thrilling to date. The previous seasons, those of January...  

How fair are the key messages on the judiciary and on the 10th of August protests transmitted by Viorica Dăncilă and SDP-ALDE in the European Parliament


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In the past few days, Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă, the SDP, and ALDE leaders, served and supported by some TV…

Romanian Judges’ Forum Association – White Paper – Cooperation protocols between the Romanian Information Service and various judicial authorities


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Romanian Judges’ Forum Association – White Paper – Cooperation protocols between the Romanian Information Service and various judicial authorities with…

Romania takes a shortcut to the exit


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When some drivers break all traffic rules in order to move faster than others, traffic gets worse. Due to a small number of rule-breakers intersections...  

Operation ROEXIT: Former Secret Service agent Daniel Dragomir, convicted in a first instance and investigated in the Black Cube case, wants Romania to leave the EU


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A violent anti-EU speech was deployed for the first time in Romania on Monday night, introducing the idea that Romania…

Protest: Romanian mass-media under Attack


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The endorsers of this petition ask for the intervention of democratic forces in Romania by taking a public stance regarding the statements made yesterday by...  

Another step toward autocracy: Dragnea wants to control independent media. G4Media.ro’s position


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Liviu Dragnea has announced that he is requesting the Dăncilă government to elaborate a bill on „the transparency of funding and the modalities of spending...  

Constitutional Court decision or Emergency Decree: Dragnea’s options for changing the High Court 5 judge panel supposed to try him in the fictitious employment case


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Sources from SDP told G4Media.ro that Liviu Dragnea is currently considering two ways which could serve his intention of changing…

Ska Keller, after discussions with Viorica Dăncilă: She said that the protesters supposedly were sent by abroad and were on drugs


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”She said that the protesters supposedly were sent by abroad and were on drugs. Ms Kövesi was fired by the president, according to her. We...  

Tensions between ALDE and SDP. Dragnea’s veiled threats and Tariceanu’s billion Romanian Lei reply


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Over the last week, Liviu Dragnea has had a couple of extremely hostile political gestures towards ALDE, and Calin Popescu Tariceanu’s party started to fight...  

Sources: The SDP deferred discussions on the law of the Black Sea gas because it is much worse for Romania as compared to the promises made publicly by Liviu Dragnea


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On Tuesday, deputy Iulian Iancu (SDP) – head of the Commission for Industries, postponed by a week the debates on…

Industry giants cause friction between SDP and ALDE: the Ministry of Energy, controlled by Tariceanu’s party, does not want big state-owned companies to lose corporate leadership


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Hungary, Russia’s Trojan horse at the heart of Europe. Budapest’s cynicism in boycotting a very important summit in Bucharest


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Prime Minister Viktor Orban was in Moscow, and President Janos Ader was blocked on the airport in Budapest after the presidential plane was hit by...  

The war breaks out in SDP: Gabriela Firea, Paul Stănescu and Adrian Ţuţuianu ask for the resignation of Liviu Dragnea as party head and push for Viorica Dăncilă to cover the ad-interim presidence of the party


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Crucial week for Romania : the Constitutional Court is expected to pronounce decisions concerning the Penal and Criminal Code, the Justice laws, the Administrative Code, and concerning the redefinition of the notion of family


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How Dragnea will try to undermine Justice again, in Parliament


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All public declarations made lately by the SDP leader Liviu Dragnea indicate that, if the Government refuses to help him, he will seek to act...  

Romania’s Erdoganisation


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The Romanian Gendarmerie, in charge of guarding specific objectives and hierarchically placed in the command structure of the Ministry of Interior, has become a political...  

Ska Keller: what happens in Romania is worrying/ Three reasons behind the Green Group’s request for a debate on the rule of law in Romania in the European Parliament


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George Maior promises „detailed explanations” in the Giuliani’s letter scandal: „All official positions of the US representatives were contrary to the spirit of the messages in the letter”


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Who ordered the violence during the protests of August 10th?


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It would be a mistake and a trap to start hunting for scapegoats, low ranked enforcers such as the white-dressed man or other secondary characters....  

The true rat status. A small appeal to Mr Dragnea’s intelligence


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You only have to feel with your mustache around you, Mr. Dragnea, for the stench scattered by dozens of PSD branches relieving themselves on Simona...  

The President’s mistake. Populism has no place at Cotroceni


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„We perceive Iohannis as Romania’s stability anchor, safeguarding the country against ideological and macroeconomic slippages.” That I was told by the representative of one of...  

PSD’s duplicitous discourse exposed by the European Commission: The Government launches committees and public commitments for joining the euro, but its fiscal policy moves us further away


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The position of G4Media.ro on Liviu Dragnea’s threats


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On Sunday night, live on a TV channel, the leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and House speaker Liviu Dragnea, described by the Associated...  

Romanian leader Liviu Dragnea called for authorities to act about journalist Dan Tapalaga because G4Media.ro revealed the Dancila Government discussed a secret memorandum on moving embassy to Israel


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Dragnea, Isărescu and Dăncilă. The significance of a strange meeting in the Chamber of Deputies office


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To his left, Prime Minister Dăncilă and Minister Teodorovici. To his right, “consigliere” Darius Vâlcov. In front, over the narrow table, the governor and the...  

fundal negru

Romania, again at a critical juncture. What can be done?


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Starting today solutions need to be found. Now we know precisely the diagnosis: Dragnea and Tariceanu pass laws for themselves, destroy institutions in their personal...  

The Group of State against Corruption of the Council of Europe expresses serious concern about certain aspects of the laws on the status of judges and prosecutors


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In a report on Romania published today, the Group of State against Corruption of the Council of Europe (GRECO) expresses…

Hungary under the sign of Viktor Orban. Interpretation of Hungarian election results


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Viktor Orban scored the most important victory in the parliamentary elections, marking a first not only in Hungary but also in the post-communist states integrated...  

All about the Broidy case. How one of President Trump’s fundraisers initiated legal action against me


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Legal representatives of the Circinus company, owned by Elliott Broidy, have announced publicly, by means of a press release sent to several Romanian newsrooms, that...  

Top European Court’s life kiss to Turkey’s ill judiciary


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With 156 journalists behind bars as of 26 February 2018 and the closing down of more than 150 media outlets by virtue of the state...  

EXCLUSIVE Romania risks losing billions of euros if breaching the independence of the judiciary. The European Commission has found the way to cut European funds


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Slippages against the judiciary in Romania and other Eastern European countries triggered a strong reaction of the main donor states…

What’s behind the campaign against the „deep state”


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The theory of the day is that the „deep state” has controlled them all. Traian Basescu, Elena Udrea, Victor Ponta, Crin Antonescu, the entire elite...  

Who we are and how G4Media works


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When we made the new website, we named it after one of the values we believe in strongly: the freedom of the press, a vital...